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• My fault now is making my plays too short.

  Beth Henley

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  Tags in Fault, Short

• Life is too short to be small.

  Timothy Ferriss

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Short

• Life’s too short to live someone else’s.

  Nathan W. Morris

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Short

• We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn’t matter. Life is to be lived.

  Randy Pausch

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  Tags in Amount, Short

• You’ve only got a short shelf-life as an actor, and I want to make the most of it while I can.

  Sharon Horgan

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  Tags in Short, Shelf

• Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.

  Carolina Herrera

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  Tags in Tough, Short

• Life’s too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.

  Garrett Hedlund

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  Tags in Every Day, Short

• You know, it’s sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don’t make money.

  Chad Harbach

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Short Story, Short

• A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

  Francesco Petrarca

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  Tags in Desires, Short

• There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. This makes it a sport you can share with people. It’s not just a solitary thing – it’s become a family thing, too. It’s about exercising and passing something on from father to son, and from mother to daughter.

  Kelly Slater

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  Tags in Short, Waves

• My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I’m pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.

  Bill Skarsgard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Difference, Short

• I don’t read such boring things. Life is too short.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Boring, Short, Reading

• Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

  Irwin Shaw

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  Tags in Try, Short, Fiction

• When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

  Irwin Shaw

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  Tags in Great, Short

• Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Topics in Life, Wisdom

  Tags in Appear, Short
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  If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

  Jane Austen

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  Tags in Short, Find, Writing, Books

• If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

  Gary Busey

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  Tags in Short, Cuts

• Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

  Winston Churchill

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  Tags in Words, Short, Writing

• Time Warner has been managed for the short term. This has damaged the company’s fundamental competitive position and its prospects for growth. This approach has cost shareholders a staggering $40 billion.

  Bruce Wasserstein

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  Tags in Time, Short, Growth

• I’d already started directing short films when we were doing ‘Lord of the Rings,’ then videogame projects.

  Andy Serkis

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  Tags in Short, Lord, Started